Mumble
Still one of the best low-latency voice clients ever made. Positional audio, tiny, and rock solid since 2005.
GrytIt does voice and nothing else, from a native client. Gryt adds text, uploads, video, and a browser you can join from.
Against the alternatives
What this costs everywhere else
Everything in the Gryt column is in the normal build and costs nothing, and whoever runs the server can turn the limits up. The right-hand column is what the same thing costs you a month somewhere else.
| Capability | Gryt | Discord | TeamSpeak |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animated avatar | Included | Nitro Basic$2.99/mo | – |
| Animated custom emoji | Included | Nitro Basic$2.99/mo | – |
| Screen sharing | Up to 240 fps, native | 1080p60 on Nitro$9.99/mo | – |
| Animated server icon | Included | 2 boosts$9.98/mo | – |
| Voice bitrate | Up to 510 kbps | 384 kbps at 14 boosts$69.86/mo | 128 kbps |
| File upload size | Whatever the host allows | 500 MB on Nitro$9.99/mo | Your disk |
| Custom invite link | Included | 14 boosts$69.86/mo | – |
| Your own domain | Included | – | Included |
| Addons and plugins | Themes, and an early plugin API | – | Included |
And the normal stuff, which all of us have.
A comparison that only lists what we win at is a sales page. So here's the rest of it, including the row where TeamSpeak has no browser client and the one where its text history beats ours.
| Capability | Gryt | Discord | TeamSpeak |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voice channels | ● | ● | ● |
| Text chat and history | ● | ● | Limited |
| Roles and permissions | ● | ● | ● |
| File sharing | ● | ● | ● |
| Push to talk | ● | ● | ● |
| Noise suppression | ● | ● | ● |
| Desktop app | ● | ● | ● |
| Screen sharing | ● | ● | – |
| Video and webcam | ● | ● | – |
| Runs in a browser | ● | ● | – |
Gryt's numbers come straight out of its own source, and they're all in the normal build. Uploads, avatars and emoji all start at 100 MB. Voice starts at 96 kbps and goes to 510. Screen sharing runs 30 to 120 fps, with 144, 165 and 240 there as experiments. Whoever runs the server can turn any of it up. Discord prices are US list, checked August 2026: $2.99 for Nitro Basic, $9.99 for Nitro, $4.99 a server boost. A boost level is the boost count times that, and Nitro subscribers get two boosts thrown in and 30% off the rest. TeamSpeak is scored on its normal client, which has no screen sharing or webcam. The TeamSpeak 6 beta adds both. If any of this is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.
The open source ones are good. Here's where we're different.
These are the projects I read while building Gryt. I'd rather point you at the right one than win an argument. Every line here comes from a post I wrote about them.
Jitsi Meet
Proved open source WebRTC calls work at scale. Their video bridge is one of the most tested SFUs there is.
GrytIt's a meeting tool. Gryt is somewhere a community sits, with channels and roles that stay put instead of rooms you book.
Element & Matrix
Federated, end-to-end encrypted, no single company in control. Governments run it. Nothing else comes close on those two things.
GrytIf federation and E2EE are your priorities, use it. Gryt trades federation for a simpler stack and voice built in-house.
Stoat
Used to be Revolt. The most familiar thing for anyone leaving Discord, and the biggest open source alternative by a long way.
GrytVoice is still being built there, and self-hosted voice is fiddly. Voice is the part Gryt started with.
Rocket.Chat
Enterprise chat done properly. Audit logs, compliance tooling, federation, the lot.
GrytIt's Slack for organisations. Gryt is for a friend group on a spare PC, and it isn't trying to be compliant with anything.
Spacebar & Sharkord
Spacebar rebuilds Discord's API, so bots written for Discord work. Sharkord runs on a Raspberry Pi as one binary.
GrytBoth use Mediasoup for voice. Gryt's SFU is written from scratch on Pion, so when voice breaks it's ours to fix.